More stories from Districts of LA

In the heart of Downtown Los Angeles, Little Tokyo and the Toy District encompass a wide-ranging slice of life. Student journalists from USC Annenberg worked together to unearth the stories of this unique community.

With no clear end in sight to the institutionalized police brutality crippling poor black communities around the country, sectors of the Black Lives Matter movement have lost patience in their search for protection in what they deem "wartime conditions."